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On Houston's northside, UP 680 switches scrap gons out of Commercial Metals at Tower 71 on the West Belt. After wrapping up their work, they'll swing around the corner at Tower 26 nearby to head back to the bottom end of Settegast Yard.
The green signal to the left is a lineup for the Big Boy, which will be passing through in a few minutes on its way to the top end of Settegast Yard.
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UP GP38N #680
Houston, TX
October 4th, 2024
Tucked away and branching off the "The Feather River Route" is little known Quincy Railroad. This industrial short line is just under 3 miles in length, but host a spectacular climb of up to 5% in order to reach the old Western Pacific, (UP at the time of this photo). Over the railroads 100 year plus history it has owned two Alco locomotives. One being steam, and this diesel switcher, #4 an S-1, which has since been retired to a museum. The line still runs to this day with brightly painted blue EMD's.
#4 switches the lumber mill at East Quincy, CA.
PHL YPSW14-27, the 1400 Switcher crew, switches out a cut of autoracks at Wilmington, CA. Powering this job is a unique Caterpiller repower, on lease from Progress Rail. Its black and gold livery matches the autoracks nicely.
Fresh into the Canyon, the crew of Watco's Agawa Canyon train performs the run around move during the 90 minute layover. While our car wasn't the most comfortable the train ride was well worth it, amazing weather and some good color along the way.
Ann Arbor's switch job pulls four cars from the "Harbor" (former Blade Warehouse) at the extreme south end of the Olive Industrial just north of downtown Toledo on a cold snowy February morning.
A square-cabed Geep trundles down the overgrown spur to WCO Enterprises to retrieve an empty wax car off of CSX's now decommissioned Export yard. With the adoption of precision scheduled railroading, all jobs from Export yard are now originating from Moncrief and have been consolidated into fewer and fewer locals. The customers around Export yard largely remain. Portside Paper has vacated its space and moved to a different warehouse up the line, still receiving cars at its new location. Manson Construction's service ended after enough rock for the St. johns dredging project was delivered. Owens Corning had discontinued limestone deliveries a few years ago but still gets asphalt service. Steelcon Supply hasn't gotten a car in a few months to a year but continues to be in business it appears. That leaves Export yard with WCO (pictured here), Jones Chemicals, a Crowley transload (tomato paste boxcars), Owens Corning (asphalt only), Lehigh Cement, and potentially but not certainly the occasional service to Steelcon Supply.
Below are some photos of the customers that have disappeared:
Portside Paper, relocated and still serviced in Yulee, FL:
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Owens Corning Roofing, switched to trucks at several facilities across the US with limestone shipments:
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Steelcon Supply, may or may not get service still - hasn't gotten a car in months:
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Manson Construction, reactived its spur for about a year to receive rock for dredging project:
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On the Montana City branch just east of Helena, the 840 local drops a healthy cut of 2 bays at a sand facility. In the distance the Big Belt Mountains stand tall above the high plains east of the Montana state capital.
MRL 840 Local (Helena Local)
MRL GP9 #109
MRL SD40-2XR #252
East Helena, MT
May 4th, 2022
Pan Am Railways PORU switches out cars at the feed mill in N. Leeds, ME. Three blue dip Geeps were a treat on this dreary February day.
CSXT's L13605 is at Suburban Propane in Woodensburg MD along the Hanover Sub. The local has cars for the customer and likewise, the customer has cars for the local. Once finished, the crew will continue east to Emory Grove and run around the cars, then head back west to Hanover PA. The train's power today is GP38-2 2561-a former Seaboard Coast Line unit from 1972 while the other unit is GP39-2 4302- a former Reading Lines unit conveyed to CSXT via D&H.
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We spent a couple hours in the morning watching the Gas Local switch out the tank car facility at Pipeline. Figured it could make for a cool framing shot to show that view from the back seat.
MRL Day Gas Local
MRL SD70ACe #4408
MRL SD70ACe #4315
Thompson Falls, MT
May 5th, 2022
CP 2315 ties onto the remainder of their train after coming off of the Radville Subdivision in the foreground. A spring storm and some great drop down light provided a guardrail sot that I just couldn't pass up.
SFG Train 565-11 has cut away from the rest of the train and will shortly start working the Groupe-Lebel lumber mill in Nouvelle-Ouest, Quebec.
The lumber mill is one of only a few customers on the Cascapedia Subdivision and ships outbound loads of lumber and woodchips.
Société du chemin de fer de la Gaspésie
Train: 565-11
12/11/2023
Nouvelle-Ouest, Quebec
SFG Cascapedia Subdivision
HESR 8802 switches Georgia Pacific on the west side Owosso as a lite rain/mist falls on a rather nasty January night. As a kid i used to watch 8802, 8804 and the other CMGN and HESR units switch this line over the years. With the Railamerica take over by G&W and all their repainting & moving of power, it is really nice to see this engine working Owosso. 8802 and the 4 former HESR GP38's are the only ones left on the HESR that have not been renumbered or repainted. It is only a matter of time.
Seen from the Mannheim Rd. overpass, SD38-2 6652 works a cut of cars at Proviso Yard on a cloudy March 14th, 1987. C&NW's 10 SD38-2's worked the Proviso hump and switch jobs, as well as Chicago-area transfers during their career, and were affectionately known as the "worlds largest switchers". Mark Ratzer photo.
Cargill Alco S2M loads a string of grain cars at Gillman, IL. This locomotive was rebuilt with a CAT diesel under the hood. The Alco S-4 that was once here, an original Santa Fe unit, had been donated to a museum in Arizona.
Bringing train 664 into Overbrook, 642 makes another autumn appearance on the Keystone Corridor. MOW is hard at work replacing a switch as part of a weekend project.
Amtrak 533 (SW1500) shoves a cut of Amfleets into Ivy City. An older SW9 (796) rests behind it.
Of note about 533 is the cylindrical spark arrestors. And of note about 796 is the “Redblock” logo on the side of the cab (not visible here)
Nice to see someone else out here too, shoutout to Austin tagged in the post, check out his photos!
The photo was taken at GEG, an industrial monument of a former mill and a factory of malted coffee substitute. It is located in Mannheim, Germany.
IHB SW1500 1505 leads a local -past one of the very few remaining EJ&E searchlights at Bridge 631 in East Chicago, IN.
Няшные йосд у меня могут вырасти только в няшных сд xD
не так я представляла себе первое появление этого товарища на людях, но раз уж все равно его спалила, а до полного воплощения еще как до луны пешком, да здравствуют снова портретики \(^___^)/
Face up by Ksiny ♥
Amtrak's "Ethan Allen Express" contained multiple firsts for me, and among them was mid-trip power switching. This train requires power to be on both ends due to a change of directions in Rutland (another first), but going in-and-out of NYC, they only need one unit, so they add/remove a unit at the Albany-Rensselaer station.
From here, they run the surplus unit up to Amtrak's nearby Rensselaer shops for servicing. From a fan perspective, it also allows you to get out and photograph the train in the process. In this case, we're looking south towards NYC, and the 701 would be cut off in short order, allowing the rest of the train to run south with just the 716.
In the days when EMD switchers dominated the Lancaster & Chester roster, a pair of SW900's work an industrial siding in Orrs, South Carolina.
GTW 4921 switches out cars at the Appvion paper Mill in Appleton Wisconsin. The overhead bridge was added in the later years of the mill.
Delaware-Lackawanna Job PO-74 switches out the cars they picked up earlier from NS as DL3 to assemble the train they would be taking up the Poconos. This task ended up taking way longer than it should have because they apparently were asked by the secret service to clear out the yard of any freight cars as a "security measure" in anticipation of Sleepy Uncle Amtrak Joe's visit to Steamtown the next day.
Side note: the prominent building in the background, which now serves as a Radisson Hotel, was the passenger station for the Lackawanna Railroad in Scranton. 10-19-21
Here is just another from last summer when GP40-2LW MEC 507 showed up on the docks in Everett to work BO-1 in her sparkling brand new paint. Truly one of the most improbable things to happen in New England railroading in 2020.
The red white and blue unit beside them is the Ciment Quebec plant switcher. This unit is the last privately owned plant switcher to be found in daily use in the immediate Boston area. It is a cabless 125 ton Alco blt. in 1960 and acquired from the bankrupt James River Coal company. The unit is remote controlled and has a hostler stand on it and once worked at a coal mine in Kentucky whose lettering it still wears. I'm not sure of the exact history of of the switcher. Some sources say it was ex Baltimore and Ohio but another says that it was originally Lehigh and New England Alco S2 616 before being sold to the Louisville and Nashville that eventually traded it in to GE that rebuilt it as an 'auto-haul 335.'
To read the whole story check out the original post here: flic.kr/p/2jtoazu
Everett, Massachusetts
Wednesday August 5, 2020
A BAR brakeman rides two free-rolling tank cars into their intended track at the Searsport ME yard, September 16, 1991.
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